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Updated: June 10, 2025
Count de la Sala, who afterward entered the service of the Khedive and now lives in Cairo, still bears the mark of the Frenchman's brass knuckles upon his forehead. In 1866 the irritation had reached such a point that Maximilian, disregarding the feelings of his allies, gave a pension to the widow of General Zaragoza, the hero of the "Cinco de Mayo."
Can you avert the fight? If you know a way, and if I, or these, can help you to it if that is what you mean in Heaven's name let me hear it." "A fight would be averted if Don Diego de Espinosa were to go aboard his brother's ship, and by his presence and assurances inform the Admiral that all is well with the Cinco Llagas, that she is indeed still a ship of Spain as her flag now announces.
Unfortunately for himself and for many others, his brother the Admiral was not at hand to restrain him when for this purpose he fitted out the Cinco Llagas at San Juan de Porto Rico. He chose for his objective the island of Barbados, whose natural strength was apt to render her defenders careless.
"Be welcome aboard the Cinco Llagas, Colonel, darling," a voice vaguely familiar addressed the planter. "We've made the best of the Spaniards' wardrobe in honour of this visit, though it was scarcely yourself we had dared hope to expect. You find yourself among friends old friends of yours, all." The Colonel stared in stupefaction. Mr.
The work of death was fearful, and hundreds of spectators were shot down as they watched from their balconies or housetops. Cannon balls riddled all the houses near the Cinco Esquinas. In the attack on the Plaza Lavalle, three hundred men must have fallen." "At ten a.m. the white flag of truce was hoisted on both sides, and the dismal work of collecting the dead and wounded began.
* Much of the credit for the achievement was due to General Negrete, whose command bore the weight of the assault upon the Cerro de Guadalupe and prevented its capture. This day is proudly recorded in the Mexican annals as the Cinco de Mayo.
He carried further a bulky package addressed to a grande of Spain, heavily sealed with the arms of Espinosa another piece of evidence hastily manufactured in the cabin of the Cinco Llagas and he was spending these last moments in completing his instructions to his young companion. Don Esteban expressed his last lingering uneasiness: "But if you should betray yourself?" he cried.
Society danced and flirted, rode in the Paseo, and walked in the Alameda, just as though the Cinco de Mayo had been a decisive battle and General de Lorencez's army had been driven back to its ships. The bull-fights once in a while gathered in the vast enceinte of the Plaza de Toros the society of the capital.
"The boat is waiting, gentlemen. You'll have heard what I said. Convey it with my compliments to his excellency." "But, sir..." one of them began. "There is no more to be said, gentlemen. My name is Blood Captain Blood, if you please, of this ship the Cinco Llagas, taken as a prize of war from Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez, who is my prisoner aboard.
As they were pulling away, the Admiral waving to them from the taffrail, they heard the shrill whistle of the bo'sun piping the hands to their stations, and before they had reached the Cinco Llagas, they beheld the Encarnacion go about under sail. She dipped her flag to them, and from her poop a gun fired a salute.
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